Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about going to Newport for a week during the vacation, but this has not been decided upon. If the club goes there they will invite such clubs as the Beacons of Boston and the Staten Island club and play a series of games. These games will be mainly to afford the nine to have a pleasant time at this fashionable watering place the receipts from the game in a great measure defraying their expenses while stopping there...
...study of specialties not strictly professional which no other university of the country has been able to equal. It is very evident that a university on the plan of Harvard, with its comparatively limited funds and with its multifarious schools and extensive academical department, cannot hope to afford such instruction to graduate students of the liberal arts and sciences as Johns Hopkins, with its narrower and more limited range. Therefore the institution of the latter university, in a field where it could perform a work peculiarly its own, was an event full of importance...
...Here, take this small money, I well can afford...
...themselves if they needed much money. The actual professor is, however, a totally different person. He is mostly a modern American, fond of books and teaching, and study it may be, but also fond of such of the social and oesthetic pleasures of his time as he can afford. The proof is that there is, we believe, no case on record of a wealthy professor living with the Spartan simplicity which college trustees try to persuade themselves that all professors love...
...Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair its moral standing and lower the value of its diplomas with all respectable and thoughtful men, it is its duty not to give it. Moreover, it cannot afford, any more than any apostle, or prophet, or moralist, or minister, to do a wrong thing just once more. The time for every man or society to stop doing wrong is now. - [New York Evening Post...